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Franck: Symphony in D Minor (Two recordings: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Columbia; 10 sides; and Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony; Victor; 10 sides). Both jobs on this much-played symphony are good; the Victor is larger in scale...
Conductors are as important as jockeys, and Bruno Walter, a successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...
Hissing for pianissimos like a music-loving gander, the goateed, salt-&-peppery conductor waved the orchestra into Delius' placid The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Suddenly Sir Thomas Beecham heard a sound that was not in the score...
...Thomas was photographed in even more annoying circumstances: receiving a writ from a process server. By way of the Seattle sheriff's office, His Majesty's Government notified Sir Thomas of its claim that he owed some $5,000 in back income taxes. The heir to Beecham's pills ("Worth a Guinea a Box") pleaded ignorance of the claim, cabled his solicitors to pay the claim, if just, or fight...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 10 sides; $5.50). These shopworn Tchaikovsky tunes scarcely warranted another going-over, but Beecham's is the best...